Heavens2kadonka

Droopy was MGM, I think. Tom and Jerry was some awesome stuff, lol.

haha, I grew up on old cartoons and Three Stooges tapes.

Van

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MUSICandCHARACTER

I say, I say, boy ..., you've got it all wrong. I'm not a chicken.



Jim

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Robert Rowe

...I remember the original "Felix the Cat" cartoons.
Then, I think someone got ahold of the name, and turned it into a porno-cartoon.

The best "real-life" (a real "reality" cartoon) cartoon is "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC, 6AM - 9PM EST.

You gotta watch it (or portions there-of) for about 2-weeks before you discern the interaction between some real-life characters. It's very news-worthy (un-filtered by network editing), has some very interesting people on regularly (had Kinky Friedman on yesterday as he announced his candidacy for governor of Texas; ...also, people like Delbert McClinton, Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, Bo Dietl, Terry Bradshaw).

Check it out before commenting.

Regards,
Robert Rowe

Heavens2kadonka

Yeah, wasnt it turned into "Fritz the Cat?"

I will get back to you on Imus. I have never heard of it before..

Van

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Bourbon City

This string is great. Yes it is hard to break. A good stong one. and ah yes.....

even the young grasshoppers shall have their day, when they too will be older and full of wonderful stories to tell tell.

and

The grasshopper turns......

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Heavens2kadonka

Gosh, I can hardly see myself in fifty years.

I hope I have a long, wispy grey beard. I also hope I have a blue hooded cloak and a long, gnarled cane.

And I embark on a journey with three midgets to save the world..

Truthfully, I just hope I dont have to wear diapers fifty years from now. thats my only real long term goal...



Van

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Heavens2kadonka

One night last year, I had this dream:

Me and my friends who went to a Festival at TN Tech my Junior year were watching Adult Swim in the Thunderbird Inn. It was a cartoon, with these two aliens (the giant brain ones, like on Ren and Stimpy) looking at a spaceship. Its about to launch. The Spaceship looks like a coffee maker.

Theres a countdown..

5.....4.....3.....2.....1.....

The ship explodes, big mushroom cloud.

The aliens look on, silent for a few moments. Pieces of debris flying around them.

Then one of them looks to the other and says, in the perfect Snaglepuss voice:

"Well heavens to kadonka!"

And for some reason we all just start laughing *SO* hard, like its the funniest thing we'd ever heard!


Thats where I got my name, because that was the absolute weirdest dream I had ever had. Felt like sharing that with youse guys!

Van (50.01)

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bigaggietrumpet

My senior year in high school, I was taking journalism and computer maintenance. In comp maint we were building computers, and I happened to get an old server tower that nobody was using, and brought it back to life. When Windows asked me for a network ID for the computer, I figured I'd use its size and my future college, hence, Big Aggie.

In journalism later that year, because of my extremely humorous wit and charm, I was asked to be on the school's daily radio show. I was searching for a nickname for the air, and once again, using my rather large height and obsession with Texas A&M, came up with The Big Aggie.

Then, when I was creating my AIM account my freshman year here, I tried to get the SN bigaggie. Well, some bum had already taken that one, so I had to come up with something else. Then it hit me, why not add my beloved trumpet to it? I created the bigaggietrumpet account, and the name's just kinda stuck ever since.

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Heavens2kadonka

Nicknames I have:

Bobo (My old band director decided to call me that one day)
Vanny B (I tried my hand a freestyle rap one time, lol)
Darlene (Dont ask)
Vaughn
Kamedaki
Rommel



Van

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Heavens2kadonka

I couldnt think of a better place to put this:

Our Assistant band director/resident composer has created an awesome piece for concert season this semester.

Its a programatic piece, depicting the Hitchcock movie, The Birds (If you've ever watched the movie, you realize theres no soundtrack).

It was originally written by him for the Fairborn high school in Illinois (Indiana?) for a Band of America marching band. He spent the better portion of two weeks arranging/writting new parts for our concert band.

Its called "The End of All Things."

Real dark, starts with a vibraphone/glockenspiel duet, then slowly brings in the entire percussion section (a bow on a gong, most noteably).

Then the band jumps in, with this frantic, real strident section (Semitone intervals everywhere). Suddenly, a small chorale starts. It builds quickly, then immediately dissolves into the frantic scene painted earlier. The stuff keeps building, more parts are added.

Then it all stops, big dramatic pause.

A vibraphone/marimba duet now.

The music then goes into a REAL mysterious, Perry Mason-esque chorale. Chords mixing with vibraphone and low brass. Flutes carrying the melody. Keeps getting darker, more sad sounding.

Then another pause.

The terror returns (I love angry music). Heavy, heavy, hot and heavy.

Then it resolves again. Real final sounding. Perfect, authentic sounding. It all seems to work out.

Then, in our composer's style, he gives it a bad ending, lol.

Real powerful piece. I love it.

Van

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